Policy Question
Thomas G. Rampton’s Oct. 25 story on Vietnam (“A Veteran Returns”) quotes an American as saying that the My Lai massacre was done by “my country.”
The difference between My Lai and the many communist atrocities in Vietnam is that My Lai was an exception to U.S. policy, for which Americans were imprisoned, while massacres of civilians were a basic communist tactic.
ROSITA MURNANE, Tujunga
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